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Technical Documentation Altium 365 Platform Interface Depending on your relationship with Altium, the services offered on the Altium Platform will be experienced from within Altium Designer and through the platform's browser-based interface. This page takes a look at the latter and provides an overview of what you'll see when you register an Altium Account and sign in to the Altium Platform Interface. For the latest information on the security,…

Technical Documentation Exploring the Browser-based Interface In addition to connecting to a Workspace through Altium Designer – interfacing to it through the Explorer panel and Components panel (for direct interaction with the components therein) – you also connect to it through a dedicated browser interface, with access to management interfaces for the various services available as part of the Workspace. In fact, with some of these services, your only…

Technical Documentation PLM Integration The composite design solution of Altium Designer and an Altium 365 Workspace offers configurable PLM Integration with support available for Windchill®, Arena®, Oracle® Agile™, Aras Innovator®, and Siemens Teamcenter® (with additional setup). The PLM integration setup is performed through the Altium 365 Workspace browser interface, which provides an automated interface for easily configuring the…

Technical Documentation Custom Prompts The ValiAssistant's Custom Prompts feature allows administrators to create and manage alternative prompts for default actions within Requirements Portal. This feature enhances ValiAssistant's flexibility by providing an ability to override default prompts with custom ones tailored to their specific needs. Managing Alternative Prompts Administrators can create custom prompts on the Settings –…

Technical Documentation Quality Assessment The ValiAssistant's Quality Assessment feature analyzes the selected Requirements' texts based on a set of INCOSE rules and provides the user with a Quality Score and a Quality Comment on how to improve the Requirements if the score is low. This information is written into two specific columns which can be enabled on the Requirements tables called Quality Assessment Comment and Quality Assessment…

Technical Documentation Find Inconsistencies The ValiAssistant's Find Inconsistencies feature takes a set of requirements, analyzes the requirement text, and identifies inconsistencies or duplications between requirements. This feature automates the process of revising the consistency between requirements, saving time and eliminating the risk of human error from this tedious process. The Find Inconsistencies feature can be accessed from…

Technical Documentation Valify Requirements The Valify feature analyzes the requirements text in search for quantifiable properties to convert them to Valis. This aims to facilitate the parameterization of requirements by automatically creating new Valis that can be then used for multiple purposes, reducing the effort and error probability associated with this manual parameterization work. After accessing the Valify Requirements feature…

Technical Documentation Breakdown Requirements The ValiAssistant's Breakdown Requirements feature takes selected high-level requirement(s) and derives lower-level requirements from them using AI. In Requirements Portal, the terminology for high- and low-level requirements are parent and child requirements, respectively. This feature accelerates the requirement breakdown process by enabling you to quickly generate lower-level requirements that…

Technical Documentation Improve Requirements The ValiAssistant's Improve Requirements takes selected requirement(s), analyzes their text, and suggests improvements. Additionally, these suggestions can be edited in the process before finalizing their creation. This feature automates the process of revising the quality of requirements, saving time and eliminating the risk of human error from this tedious process. After accessing the Improve…

Technical Documentation Generate Requirements The ValiAssistant's Generate Requirements feature generates a set of requirements from a provided description of your project or stakeholder requirements. These requirements can then be adjusted before deciding whether to finalize their creation in your project or whether to discard them. This feature accelerates the creation and ideation process by enabling you to generate requirements quickly…